Events
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Iris Collective: Intersections
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesCrosstown Theater Thursday, February 9, 2023 Doors at 6:30 p.m. | Show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $35 | $30 in advance PURCHASE TICKETS HERE In partnership with Iris Collective, Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Randall Goosby and New York Times “Best of 2021” pianist Zhu Wang will perform with Iris musicians celebrating music’s capacity […]
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The Black Opry Revue
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesBlack Opry is a home for Black artists and Black fans of country, blues, folk, and Americana music. Country music has been made by and loved by Black people since its conception. For just as long, we have been overlooked and disregarded in the genre by fans and executives. Black Opry wants to change that. We invite you to discover, support and enjoy the Black artists that make magic in this space. One of the most valuable aspects of country music is its versatility and diversity in sound. Country, blues, folk, and Americana music often overlap or weave together — these artists explore all of those sounds and intersections. The Black Opry Revue showcases the diversity in sound and stories that Black artists offer to these genres.
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Juilliard String Quartet
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesWith unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring.
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Modern Masters Jazz Series: Khari Allen Lee
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesKhari Allen Lee has arisen as one of the most in-demand saxophonists, educators, composers, and multi-instrumentalists of his generation.
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Microcinema: 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Shorts Tour
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesIndie Memphis and Crosstown Arts are honored to start off Microcinema this year with a program of shorts from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America! This program of shorts features fascinating works from filmmakers from around the world who employ an array of approaches — an absurdist music video, a mediation on physical and mental spaces within the African Diaspora, and a video essay exploring the innocence and role of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema.
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The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents COOLEY HIGH
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesMichael Schultz directed this deeply felt recollection of adolescent life on Chicago's near North Side in 1964. Like American Graffiti, Cooley High deals with girl, school, and police troubles as a group of high school seniors prepare for post-high-school life.
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Leyla McCalla
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesLeyla McCalla finds inspiration from her past and present, whether it is her Haitian heritage or her adopted home of New Orleans, she — a bilingual multi-instrumentalist, and alumna of Grammy award-winning African-American string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops — has risen to produce a distinctive sound that reflects the union of her roots and experience.
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Sound Fuzion
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesSound Fuzion is a sixteen-piece commercial band that was formed and founded at the University of Memphis. Founded in 1988, the vision/ goal for the premiere commercial ensemble is to prepare students for the professional world of touring and performing. Over the years, Sound Fuzion has helped enhance and cultivate artists including Jordan Occasionally, Kyndle Wylde, The PRVLG, Jessica Ray, and The Band Camino. With high enrollment and determined students, Sound Fuzion equips and develops students to prepare them for the music industry and the world.
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The Project H
Crosstown Arts, The Green Room 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United StatesIn 2014, The Project H won the Pitch Music Award for “Best Jazz Ensemble.” Their record, We Live Among the Lines was named the second-best Kansas City release of any genre by The Deli magazine in 2014. Their fourth record of original music, Everyday, Forever, reached #7 on iTunes in March of 2018.
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The Crosstown Arts Film Series presents GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
Crosstown Theater 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN, United StatesJim Jarmusch combined his love for the ice-cool crime dramas of Jean-Pierre Melville and Seijun Suzuki with the philosophical dimensions of samurai mythology for an eccentrically postmodern take on the hit-man thriller.
